Nuclear Threat

LETTERS FROM READERS

October 23, 1997

I HOPE that those who protested the nuclear-powered space probe Cassini will continue to protest what will be a constant nuclear threat to the Southeastern United States - the Soviet-style nuclear power plants being built in Cuba. One of the two plants is 80 percent complete, and the General Accounting Office has concluded that the Cuban plants under construction are unsafe.

In a worst-case scenario, a radioactive plume from a nuclear meltdown in Cuba could contaminate a swath of the United States stretching from Texas to Virginia.

I agree with U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Miami, who says that we have a potential Chernobyl right in our own back yard!